Ariel in the Cloven Pine

 

Ariel in the Cloven Pine Paul Vincent Woodroffe, 1905

Fairies in trees are part of my own personal mythology. Like dryads, it pushes them into a botanical existence. In trees, they thrive, sleep, rest, refill their magic.

Camus Quote

"The true horror of existence is not the fear of death, but the fear of life. It is the fear of waking up each day to face the same struggles, the same disappointments, the same pain. It is the fear that nothing will ever change, that you are trapped in a cycle of suffering that you cannot escape. And in that fear, there is a desperation, a longing for something, anything, to break the monotony, to bring meaning to the endless repetition of days."

— Albert Camus, The Fall

Yearning.....

What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why,
I have forgotten, and what arms have lain
Under my head till morning; but the rain
Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh...

            — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Writing quote by Sylvia Plath

 "Write to create a mood, an incident. If this is done with color  and and feeling, it becomes a story."

              — Sylvia Path, journal 1959

Quotes

“She tastes like nectar and salt. Nectar and salt and apples. Pollen and stars and hinges. She tastes like fairy tales. Swan maiden at midnight. Cream on the tip of a fox's tongue. She tastes like hope.”

                              — Laini Taylor

The Embrace by Wilhelm List

The Embrace by Wilhelm List

But what about The Fly?

There is a flower that Bees prefer—

And Butterflies—desire—

Emily Dickinson.

Illustration for The Conference of Birds by Attar of Nishapur

 

Habiballah of Sava for The Conference of Birds 

by Attar of Nishapur aka Farid ad-Din Attar.

Desire

“Sex is our deepest form of consciousness. It is utterly non-ideal, non-mental. It is pure blood-consciousness.... It is the consciousness of the night, when the soul is almost asleep.” — D. H Lawrence